I have been told variously (depending on documentation) that I need 8139too, 8139cp or rtl8139 as the driver. Debian [3.0r2] seems to be loading rtl8139 even though there is nothing in /etc/modules.conf for it. This was an option selected at install time.
Apparently for 8139C chipset I need 8139cp, how do I get it to use that instead of rtl8139 which is being loaded by some inscrutable means at startup and which apparently isn't working?
By working I mean that I can't ping the Windows machine or vice versa, which should be possible?
The lights are on on the card on the Windows machine, so there seems to be the low level cable connection working correctly.
The Windows machine has Netbios over TCP enabled, static IP address 192.168.0.2, file and print sharing bound to TCP/IP, can ping itself. Linux machine has the address 192.168.0.1 and can ping itself OK.
Here are the outputs of some commands tried on the system:
rtl8139-diag: rtl8139-diag.c:v2.12 12/03/2003 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0xfc00. Realtek station address 00:05:1c:19:df:f4, chip type 'rtl8139C'. Receiver configuration: Normal unicast and hashed multicast Rx FIFO threshold 256 bytes, maximum burst 256 bytes, 64KB ring Transmitter enabled with NONSTANDARD! settings, maximum burst 256 bytes. Flow control: Tx disabled Rx disabled. The chip configuration is 0x14 0x6c, MII full-duplex mode. No interrupt sources are pending. Use '-a' or '-aa' to show device registers, '-e' to show EEPROM contents, -ee for parsed contents, or '-m' or '-mm' to show MII management registers.
ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:1C:19:DF:F4 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:8256 (8.0 KiB) TX bytes:23371 (22.8 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xfc00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3511 (3.4 KiB) TX bytes:3511 (3.4 KiB)
tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FD:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1000 (1000.0 b)
Interrupt:5
mii-tool: eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
